Catfood Earth

Catfood Earth transforms your desktop wallpaper into a regularly updated view of our planet's surface.

Your wallpaper can now show current cloud cover, weather radar, earthquakes, the extent of daylight and nighttime, political borders and more.

Note that Catfood Earth is the new name for Catfood Desktate. Existing Desktate customers can upgrade to Earth at no charge.

Customer Feedback

"I was looking for a 'live' time zone clock for my desktop. Catfood Earth offers by far the best time zone tool around and a whole lot more. Beautiful, functional and thoughtfully designed, it brings the world alive."

     - Martin Pratt (Director of Research, International Boundaries Research Unit, Durham University)

"While Catfood Earth is a "fun" product, it has been indispensible to me and our global business from a professional standpoint. It lets me know when I can communicate with clients around the globe and the weather I might be headed into on client visits. All the features are outstanding and there is no product available in its class."

     - Joe D. Clayton

"Thanks for such a great piece of software! It is so rare to find such a well-thought product, and then still with customer service that even surpasses it! Already well worth the cost - and all the unexpected features to boot! Thanks!!"

     - Hilton Kaplan

"This is the best application of earth real live images for desktop i've experienced!"

     - Julie Branch

"This great simulator will show you our blue planet in all of its beauty - with ice caps covering the poles, clouds slowly moving above the surface and countries slowly emerging on the map."

     - 3d2f.com

Screenshots

Catfood Earth has three themes. The default is the natural theme - this shows the current extent of daylight and nighttime and global cloud cover (updated every three hours). As well as choosing a theme you can fully customize eight different layers: the day image, cloud cover, the night image, time zones, political borders, places, earthquakes and weather radar (US locations only).

The Time Zones theme color codes countries and regions to show their current time zone. Clocks at the top of the screen show you the current time in each zone. As countries enter or leave daylight savings the map is updated. You can choose to add places to the map, in which case Catfood Earth can also display the local time for cities, friends, company offices, etc. This theme is ideal for frequent travelers or to display locations as a conversation piece in your company's reception area.

Lastly the Earthquakes theme shows recent earthquake data from the USGS. You can display earthquakes from up to the past twenty-four hours, and from magnitude 2.5 or higher. The display for each quake fades over time so it's easy to pick out the more recent events. It's also possible to show the location, time and magnitude of each quake.